<< Maybe. I wouldn't see much point in making a human mind in an octopus
body,
though, I assume, such a mind would still be different -- in much the same
way people who drow up with some major difference (being very tall or short,
blind or deaf, e.g.) would add a distinctive new shade of _human_ being.
However, given the paranthetic remarks, there might be moral concerns about
this. After all, some might think a human mind in a nonhuman body might be
akin to crippling fetuses for the sake of making crippled children.